Archives of the Impossible conference | Fifth plenary session, March 5, 2022: John Phillip Santos

John Phillip Santos, a Rhodes Scholar, writer, journalist, and documentarian, presented “Encuentros No Imaginables
en Lugares Increibles: Locating the Borderlands in the Archives of
the Impossible," the fifth plenary session as part of Archives of the Impossible, a scholarly conference and exhibition that took place March 3-6, 2022, at Rice University. Stefan Sanchez, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Religion at Rice University, provided introductory remarks.

In addition to television documentaries on religion and culture for CBS News and PBS, myriad magazine articles and newspaper work, Santos has authored two memoirs, "Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation" (1999 National Book Award Finalist) and "The Farthest Home is in An Empire of Fire" (2010), and a book of poems, "Songs Older Than Any Known Singer" (2007). He teaches Writing and Mestizo Cultural Studies in the Honors College at University of Texas San Antonio. He is currently working on the last installment in his trilogy of memoirs, and collaborating with Chicano rocker Alejandro Escovedo on a “mythic” memoir of the musician’s storied life in punk rock and beyond.

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